True is, that whilome that good poet said,
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne:
For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed
As by his manners, in which plaine is showne
Of what degree and what race he is growne.
-Faerie Queene.
Mr. Van Brunt flung open the door, and the two wet and weary travellers stepped after him into the s